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good afternoon everyone this is the post

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launch news conference for the Landsat

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data continuity mission launched this

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morning on an atlas 5 rocket and here to

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talk about the success of this launch

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end the spacecraft on the way to its low

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Earth orbit destination our kin schweer

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the ldcm project manager from NASA's

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Goddard Space Flight Center Michael

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Luther the deputy associate

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administrator for programs for NASA

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science for the NASA science Mission

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Directorate at NASA headquarters Michael

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freilich the director of NASA's Earth

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Science Division and castle the

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assistant secretary for water and

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Interior and Marcia McNutt the director

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for the US Geological Survey and we'll

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begin first with the ldcm project

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manager and Ken schwere Ken thank you

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George oh what a glorious day can't tell

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I'm happy and proud huh just a few

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minutes ago I got done speaking with my

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mission ops team back in Greenbelt

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Maryland the satellite is doing great we

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separated from the launch vehicle like

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79 minutes after liftoff a few minutes

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after that we already had ground contact

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with the satellite and a few minutes

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after that our solar array already

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deployed we r power positive and once

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your power positive with the array out

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you have a lot of options there anything

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that could come up so it's in the best

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hands right now it's in my mission

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operations teams they're trained for a

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long time and they're doing a great job

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and I'm so proud of them on behalf of

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want to thank the KSC launch services

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program in ula they have once again put

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us exactly where we want to be on a

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smooth ride a beautiful launch on a

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clear day they don't make the weather

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but it was a clear day I spoke with a

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lot of our guests to her at the viewing

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sites we have over 1,000 guests that

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registered out here to watch the ldcm

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launch they said the skies were

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our lap our mission is now in orbit so

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many people have worked such a long time

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to make this happen and the organization

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i want to put extreme thanks out to is

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the orbital corporation for the

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satellite effort they put in over the

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last year it was really unparalleled in

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my career there are great professionals

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great to work with they accommodate all

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organizations and they made this happen

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one awesome note for my mission manager

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who's running everything back a NASA

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Goddard Space Flight Center it's a

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birthday today and I told her she's

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never going to get a bigger candle than

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this so in closing I don't have to say

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go anymore I can say Thank You atlas

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Thank You centaur and for LDC I mission

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may be along and successful thank you

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thank you kid and now to Michael Luther

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the deputy associate administrator for

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programs for the NASA science Mission

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Directorate at NASA headquarters Mike

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thanks which will I just like to say

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that from the standpoint of headquarters

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contribution to this I want to say and a

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special thanks to to our other

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was there when we were formulating this

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program and it was a difficult task

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working with the administration to

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figure out exactly what the right

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structure of this program should be and

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we all pull together and finally got it

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got it kicked off put together the team

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that Ken leads and has led here to this

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point and and so it's a pleasure to see

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the success on such a beautiful day and

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a beautiful launch I want to take just

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and say that almost all of our space

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programs are difficult they have

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challenges of all sorts the this one had

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worth acknowledging the the the role

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team that included OSC the instrument

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integration with KSC and ula in the

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lunch vehicle but in order to get here

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launch vehicle that's not our normal

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today I'll just add quickly that this

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satellite will join more than 65 other

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satellites that have been developed by

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the science Mission Directorate and as

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we cover our entire solar system and

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beyond to advance the state of

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scientific knowledge and I know that the

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huge international community out there

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is breathing a sigh of relief after

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seeing a beautiful lunch that uses

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and George back to you thank you Mike

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and now to Michael Frogley the director

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for NASA's Earth Science Division Mike

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afternoon I mean good afternoon ah this

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is has just been fantastic I was

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thinking that that I would tell you

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stories about what actually happened

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this morning engineering problem after

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engineering problem getting to the end

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that none of that would be true it was

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smooth and a spectacular launch as you

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team that that Ken schwere has put

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together and led so Abele our partners

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landsat data everyone around the world

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measurements this is global impact that

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the Interior and thank you George on

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longest continuous series of Earth

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better partnership really and the

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the Landsat program but we're also one

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universe that's the kind of

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transformative power that Landsat has

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climate change and of the impacts of

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operation of the program thank you thank

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monitoring system that for the last 40

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to observe for himself or herself the

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flawless lunch today the Landsat legacy

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will live on and I want to thank every

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past and you're going to stand down for

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those of us at USGS the real hard work

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that way so thank you everyone job well

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done Thank You Marsha and we're ready

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guess for Ken could you talk a little

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sure we actually have what we call a

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90-day commissioning period and over the

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next week is we're going to activate the

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spacecraft and that's all the spacecraft

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subsystems check it out make sure the

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spacecraft's healthy after that we turn

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our focus to the instruments activating

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the instruments and we do that over a

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couple weeks to make sure both the OL I

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and tears instruments are ready to go in

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around day 38 or so we're actually going

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to do an under fly ldcm will do an under

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fly with Landsat 7 this is make sure we

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can calibrate validate the sensors

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that it's not the only way but it's the

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quickest way after that we go to our

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final orbit which will be in the same

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16-day cycles to make sure we do a good

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job in covering the entire surface and

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roundel plus 100 we actually turn the

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LDC emission over to USGS and at that

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ginate just a quick follow-up put as

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NASA's role then after that a hundred

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days is over at least for your team at

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Goddard after that my team essentially

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pulls back walks away but the key area

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is associated with continuing this

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mission like the orbital contract for

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actually turned over to a USGS to manage

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and any kind of support that is needed

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from Goddard either on the tears on

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submit or engineering support we have an

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interagency agreements to make sure that

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stays in place as long as they needed

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mission what is your expectation for the

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amount of downloads that you'll you'll

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see in the coming years when you've

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that happening ever since 2008 we went

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policy we went from downloads of about

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20,000 images per year to now over 3

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million but I don't think we've seen the

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additional sensors in the

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instrumentation on Landsat 8 and one

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example is we're going to get better

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thermal data that will allow more

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precise management of water resources

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and better ability to forecast the

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availability of crop commodities so I

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applications developed for the use of

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available and consequently more

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downloads in addition or I'd say even

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the fact that it was a better instrument

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22-percent data loss in every scene

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corrector failure assuming that we have

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no problems with the check out for

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landsat 8 i'm expecting that users will

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instantly prefer landsat 8 / Landsat 7

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entirely uncorrupted and therefore we

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are going to see massive you know

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downloads for this data plus we're going

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to get 400 rather than 250 scenes per

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volume of downloads as well so they

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available so you know you can do the

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math as to what the demand is going to

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increase by there if I could I have one

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the extension of the record from ldcm

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with accurate measurements and the free

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and open data exchange policy will allow

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trends you won't have to choose just one

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be analyzing quantitatively the slow

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trends amidst the rapid variation to

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understand where it is that this planet

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downloads they are event-driven for

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example things like Fukushima the oil

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spill the haiti earthquake all of these

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events tend to drive a lot of downloads

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too so we'll see Janine Janine Scully

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santa maria times lompoc record so the

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next milestone must be the first images

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from landsat how eager are you guys to

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see those images and when exactly are

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you expecting to get just a early peek

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even at one how quickly we we plan to

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get an early peek as a team around day

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30 and yes a lot of people would be

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about in additional questions here in

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the room yes right here Roger record the

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Arcada I do you guys keep track of the

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general public's use versus the

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scientific use of the images that are

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available well what we can keep track of

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is for example how many downloads come

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from dot ed use versus dot RGS and to

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the extent that someone getting them

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general public versus someone from

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academic might be a dot edu then yes and

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so we've got pie charts that show how

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much is government use versus how much

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is academic versus an average citizen

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who might be looking at scenes and we've

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got statistics that show that shows some

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of that any further questions here in

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the room all right have we got any

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questions at the other NASA field

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alright no questions of the other

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centers so we'll go on now to Twitter to

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not hearing any there so in that event a

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little bit about any of further

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questions here in the room we're going

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to in the program with a replay of

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today's launch and in addition to that

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of the spacecraft from the camera that

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was on board the Centaur it was truly

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spectacular video so we'll close now

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with the video from the launch and then

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the ldcm deployment from the Centaur and

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that will conclude our post launch news

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conference thank you very much 25 status

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check go Alice go centaur go ldcm do you

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mind is 15 seconds t-minus ten nine

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rocket on the Landsat data continuity

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mission continuing the 40-year legacy of